Caterham wrote:

now I'm sure some of you will try and jump on the racist band wagon but take a moment and consider how often we see Sikhs and Hindus in the news - rarely, yet would it not be right to suggest they're of the same 'race' but clearly have a very different outlook on life?

something is very wrong somewhere and I think it's culture not race. but then making women hide themselves is perhaps a clue as to the issue.

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The children were orphaned, abandoned, surrendered, sexually abused, victims of child pornography, trafficked for domestic work, trafficked for labour/rescued from labour, trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, child marriage, HIV and AIDS-infected children, children affected by natural, man-made disasters, conflict, homeless, runaway/missing, special children or from other States.

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almost all victims of sexual assault are attacked by people close to them. Their chachas and thyas, mammas and phuphars. Their fathers and dadas and nanas.

Caterham wrote:

.....as I said - it's clearly normal behaviour (albeit not in my eyes).

it would appear the has it in for a certain culture at the moment cos for the last few years in the UK it would appear only certain gangs have appeared in the new (so far as I can recall).
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The inquiry was launched by the Scottish Government to raise public awareness of the scale and impact of abuse affecting children in residential care between 1930 and 2014.

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The true number of offences remains doubtful, generally assumed to be larger, due to expected unreported cases of child abuse.[6] Some 90% of the sexually abused children were abused by people who they knew, and about 1 out of every 3 abused children did not tell anyone else about it.[2] The vast majority of child sex offenders in England and Wales are male, with men representing 98% of all defendants in 2015/16, and white, with whites representing 85% of convicted child sex offenders and 86% of the general population in 2011.

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Sexual abuse within institutions is one thing and quite bad enough.

However setting up an institution for the sole purpose of trafficking and raping children is another.


Defending the behaviour of a foreign culture that has been inserted into ours, by saying that ours was already imperfect could also be seen by some as thinly disguised (reverse) racism.

Perhaps a robust debate on whether medieval Middle Eastern attitudes towards females are compatible with a 21st Century European democracy would be more helpful than simply making excuses?

Grenadier wrote:

I think what he did has been going on for years, as others have already said, fortunately it's a rare, rare thing.

What I think may have worsened in recent years, and entirely because of the internet, is general levels of paedophilia. Whilst I don't think the numbers of men and women who are paedophiles has necessarily changed (I believe it is genetic mis-printing, much like pyschopaths), I do think the internet has given them unfetted access, which in turn has led to a proliferation of children being abused for profit on the Dark Net. Whilst abuse has always happened, I'm sure there are some Paedophiles who would never have been able to find their way in to the murky, dark underground world if it required personal contacts. Now they can do it online, anonymously, and to a great degree (if the level of the problem is to be believed) with impunity. As a result, kids worldwide are being kidnapped and abused by criminals and gangs to supply this far, far larger need than there was before. And all internet driven.

The internet IMO is a double-edged weapon. Hugely useful on the one had (keeping in contact, mapping, TV, music, booking your hols, news updtes etc), but equally dark on the other (on-line bullying, live suicides, child abuse, grooming, beheading, kids falling off buildings trying to be famous, FB and Twitter depression, self-loathing, self-obsession etc etc). And it's exponential, each and every person trying to out-do the former...

I'd give up having access to on-line flights and Google Maps if it brought our society, it's perversions, sadness, anger, violence etc back down to earth and to what we would consider 'normal levels' based on the interactions of 7bn humans. The internet has exposed the horrible side of humans all too quickly and all too publicly, and as we're easily-led pack animals, it only stands to continue or get worse. The internet is not always a good thing.

Rant over